19-year-old mum leaves baby to starve to death

In a development that has caused a major debacle in the public domain, a 19-year-old mum, Verphy Kudi who left her baby home alone for six days while she celebrated her birthday has been convicted of manslaughter. Mirror reports that a court heard that the teenager walked out on 20-month-old Asiah and partied while her […]

Family Dog Bites One-Year-Old Girl To Death

A one-year-old girl who was bitten in the head by her family’s pit bull mix when she reached for the animal’s food bowl has been confirmed dead. According to Metro, A’Myrikal Hull died last Thursday when the female pocket bully – a pit bull Patterdale terrirer mix – bit her at her family’s home in […]

Black Wednesday In Anambra As Truck Crushes 4 To Death

Awka – Four female hawkers were on Wednesday crushed to death by a truck at Upper Iweka flyover, Onitsha. The unfortunate incident which took place at 7:30 am today, at Upper Iweka flyover, involved a blue Mercedes Benz truck with registration number XF 259 UNZ driven by an unidentified driver. TNC correspondent who arrived at the […]

3 Years After, Rivers Court Sentences Man To Death By Hanging For Murder Of Jumia Delivery Agent

Portharcourt – A High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has sentenced a young man to death by hanging for the murder of a delivery agent with an online marketing store, Jumia, in March 2017. The convict, Mr. Sodienye Mbatumukeke was arrested alongside his friends, Mr. Divine Excel Naabe and Miss Joy Eluwa for the murder […]

Mysterious Death Claims 3 in Abia after Church Crusade

Three members of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in the Ariaria area of Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State have passed on less than 24 hours after organising a crusade in the church premises. Local sources say an Archdeacon of the Anglican church, Julius Dike, his wife, Agnes, and their house maid, died under mysterious […]

Buhari mourns as former Kaduna Governor, Balarabe Musa dies

Balarabe Musa, the first civilian governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria’s Second Republic is dead. Disclosing the development, former Senator, Shehu Sani on his Twitter page, wrote “Alhaji Balarabe Musa has died. May Allah forgive his souls and grant him Aljanna Firdausi. Amin”. In a swift reaction to the development, President Muhammadu Buhari described the death […]

Another death recorded in Bauchi, 6 more patients discharged

Another patient has died of Coronavirus following complications at the treatment centre, bringing the total number of death to 8. This was contained in the Bauchi COVID-19 situation report, which was made available to journalists in Bauchi. According to the report, as at 31st May 2020, two new cases were reported while 6 more patients […]

Let’s Burn the Whole Thing Down: Death, Protest and George Floyd

Mobs are unruly, headless things. The message is the action. The platform is often violence. But what is happening across the United States cannot simply be labelled as a looting-leads-to-shooting episode. It ranks as another chapter of enraged despair and untidy opportunism. It all began with a savage act in South Minneapolis, a killing grotesque […]